No Electronic box in pointless distributor

Lean Burn in my memory used 2 electronic pickups, one for starting ( maybe a fixed amount of retard?) and one that fed the electronic timing control. The distributors had no mechanical OR vacuum advance. There has got to be some electronic device somewhere firing the coil. Just my 2c

The later Lean Burn system (re-branded "Electronic Spark Control") in the '80's used the single pickup design and no advance mechanism. I agree there's a box or module hidden somewhere on the car, probably under the dash.